USN-439-1: file vulnerability

22 March 2007

file vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

Ubuntu 6.10

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

Ubuntu 5.10

Software Description

Details

Jean-Sebastien Guay-Leroux discovered that “file” did not correctly
check the size of allocated heap memory. If a user were tricked into
examining a specially crafted file with the “file” utility, a remote
attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: